HIV & AIDS
IU expert: Current HIV testing approach 'not doing the job'
Beth Meyerson, co-chair of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention at Indiana University, said expanding HIV testing is critical.
Jun 28, 2012
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News tagged with testing services
Radiology & Imaging
Preventive care may be free, but follow-up diagnostic tests can bring big bills
When Cynthia Johnson learned she would owe $200 out-of-pocket for a diagnostic mammogram in Houston, she almost put off getting the test that told her she had breast cancer.
Jun 17, 2022
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Medications
Evidence clearly shows the benefits of pill testing
Evidence is growing that pill testing encourages young people to reconsider their drug use—and new forms of testing can provide even more benefits.
Jan 10, 2019
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Health
Diagnostic tests 'just to be on the safe side' not recommended
Paradoxical maybe, but it's what often happens in the health services: When you ask for an MRI to be on the safe side, your uncertainty increases, says Bjørn Hoffman, a professor at the Department of Health Sciences at the ...
Jan 16, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Ovarian cancer is not a silent killer. Recognizing symptoms could help reduce misdiagnosis and late detection
Ovarian cancer is the most deadly of gynecologic tumors. Fewer than 40% of those diagnosed with ovarian cancer are cured, and approximately 12,810 people in the U.S. die from the disease every year.
Apr 26, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Infectious diseases treated on the spot
Point-of-care testing developed at Flinders University will be part of the rollout of new services targeting infectious diseases across remote Australia and also the Asia-Pacific.
Aug 21, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Can colorectal cancer be prevented?
Regular screening is one of the most important ways to prevent colorectal cancer (colon and rectal).
Dec 8, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Panels recommend gearing back on prostate-cancer screenings, cancer
A blood screening result that suggests prostate cancer is bound to provoke high anxiety - even though up to 80 percent of those findings turn out to be false positives.
Dec 28, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
People with chronic kidney disease are vulnerable to hospitalisation
People with multiple health conditions—known as multimorbidity—are at risk of unplanned admissions to hospital. Now, new research has found the rates of hospitalization in these people are even higher if one of their ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Surgery
D-dimer blood test shows value in detecting prosthetic joint infections
Measurement of plasma D-dimer levels—a test more commonly used to detect blood-clotting disorders—can provide useful information when making the difficult diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), reports a study ...
Feb 10, 2023
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